Electric-Knight

I understand why you're saying that, but I think being based in Paragon City and having exotic locations to travel to for adventure is desirable.

As much as I loved the idea of a whole world under this dystopian rule... Both before we knew what they were doing and after we learned, it just seemed obvious to me that Praetoria should be a higher-level world to interact with.

While I understand the love of creating Praetorians and being immersed in that world, it just seems like the realities of the gaming population and preferences would have made doing the Atlas Park revamp along with high-level Praetorian content for Primal characters the smarter way to go.

There was a lot of quality work done... especially the world building and the new zone-connecting tech... but the idea of splitting up the starting points even more (and it only being a world from 1-20) always seemed like a not-so-good idea to me.

But hey... I'd rather people go for things and shoot for things that don't always work. Sometimes greater things happen than when you stick with the smart money.
I don't regret giving my money for their experiment, at the very least.

The fact that he covered one eye, while surveying Fury's command station had me cracking up. Hahahaha...


Very true! Not only the lack of slow motion... but I personally dislike the super high shutterspeed style that's been a tired staple (mostly since the success of Gladiator... blech!).
It was great to see the action in such a "natural" way, yet (no surprise here) you could still make it all out! It just takes good work... seems like people these days skip the good work part and rely on techniques they think (or are taught) are necessary.

HAHA!
That's weird, because this was the first thing that I thought of when I entered this post yesterday!
Love this, lol.

Oh, I completely understand. And I think you're right about that usage of Web Grenade. I guess that is why I really only use it for runners (and for tying down lowlifes that need to be blown up... See, my Arch/Dev is an anti-hero vigilante type who basically feels like criminals are scum with no rights at all, haha).
And, yep... we can't skip it!

The cigar is the toughest one. And only half points for the cigarillo.

No worries at all.
I know keeping IOs completely out of my game is weird, but I don't feel embarrassed about it or anything.
Nope, I don't/haven't ever done any of that.

I did make a build, finally, for my main, Electric-Knight using an intelligent Frankenslotting approach (much like Ironblade talked about... which I completely agree with... if I were to ever delve into using IOs, I'm pretty sure that is how I'd almost always go about it... seems to be the best bang for the buck, in my rather limited opinion, hehe).

I just chose individual pieces of the different sets to get me as much recharge, damage, accuracy as I could without losing anything and while picking up a few small bonuses along the way.
However, that was a long while ago and I still have not made the build in-game.

Although... I did start it, by crafting some of the enhancements and I actually (only just remembering this) slotted a couple of dual (or was it triple) IOs into Short Circuit. As that is a power that I can see benefiting from having more than I can accomplish with just standard slotting.


Just thinking about getting all the ingredients and recipes for each of the different pieces of sets starts to make my eyes glaze over... I really can't explain it.

The only other thing that I think plays a factor is that I pretty much do all my slotting at once... not here and there, along the way.
I'll get myself started on the IOs around 17, if not earlier (I don't tend to speed through the levels). 22 and 27 and so on. I try and put my bids in way ahead of time, so I can just scoop them all up when I'm ready and slot them up as quickly as can be. I buy extras for the levels in-between and/or to sell back for profit.

It may be a much smaller difference to switch to using other IOs (and they may give a much bigger benefit) than I imagine, but I've just become so comfortable with it and haven't had any reason to break out of it. And I don't really enjoy the process, so... I just do what I already know and spend as little time, energy and thought on it as possible, hehe.
It is strange, because it is about the exact opposite of how I approach just about everything else in my life... LOL.


Sorry for the continued thread derail!


EDIT: Maybe a big factor is that I tend to have to put a lot of time and research into things that I do (if I am going to do something, I have to do it masterfully, haha...)... So, that means adding this and that and comparing and contrasting and there just seems like way too many options for me to want to bother with!

They are a list of things that people on the Champion server do, set to specific times and dates, according to the Gregorian calendar.

I can try and explain my reasons and hopefully that'll make some sense to you.

While I don't technically use SOs (I use the standard IOs so that I don't end up with diminished and/or red enhancements as I level), none of my characters have any IO sets or set bonuses.
Why not?
There may be a few reasons, but the big one is that I simply do not enjoy spending my time sifting through the various recipes and figuring out what to use and what I need and what bonuses they'll give me and what the overall numbers would be compared to just straight-up standard enhancements.
As an example, do you know how some people simply do not enjoy role-playing? It's the same for me with the inventions.
I can't entirely explain why this is the case (other than simply not enjoying it), because it is not difficult or over-my-head type stuff.
I think it mostly just feels tedious to me when I have approached it. And what is the point of doing something that I find tedious when my fun is not gated behind it whatsoever... which leads to the other half of this point... I am able to play this game through any and all content (usually solo) without any set bonuses or frankenslotting or any IOs (again, I do use the standard IOs). I love playing the game and have a blast when I do and I never have people complaining about my performance when I am teamed with others. In fact, I've been praised by some who most around here consider a rather astute min/maxer and in-game achiever.

I've never felt much need, nor seen much reason, to acquire an extra few percentages (when I'm filling out my 50s' enhancements with all level 50 IOs, I laugh and/or cringe -depending on my mood, I guess- at how insignificant the difference is, hehe).

So, to put it very simply... I don't enjoy the process of IOing and making builds and my fun in this game is not gated, at all, behind doing any of that.
If I wasn't able to have fun while "willfully ignoring" this aspect of the game, I likely wouldn't be playing this game.

Also, from my experiences, you seem to be placing too much importance/relevance on having IOs in your build vs. not having them. It's never been a negative issue for as long as I've been playing.


Why do I find the IO sets more tedious than standard IOs?
That's an interesting question, Electric-Knight.
Oh, thank you! Would you like to answer it now?
Okay, I'll give it a try... Might I add that I love your writing style?
No, but please do go ahead.

Okay... I don't particularly enjoy spending any time making/acquiring enhancements. I also like the simplicity of the standard enhancements: Damage, Accuracy, Recharge, et cetera. It's very quick and simple for me to just figure out which of those I want to add into a power and be done with it. I fully recognize that it is not very complicated to work with dual and triple types of enhancements, but it just goes beyond my tolerance level for having to spend the time on it.
More importantly, with the standard IOs, when I want 15 level 35 Damage enhancements... I can just acquire X15 of all the same ingredients I'll need and, voila, I'm done.

When I've looked at the numbers for using IO sets, I find that I prefer the idea of Frankenslotting, but that just compounds the process of figuring out which of what and where and... Blah... Like I said, this is just something that I don't seem to find fun and could never get myself to spend my free time doing it.

I certainly ain't dumb... far from it... and I spend my time working through a lot of complicated things, but, for whatever reason, the IO system goes beyond my tolerance for within this game.
And I am someone who has greatly enjoyed the complexity of much more advanced crafting systems in other games (SWG's crafting system, for one).
*shrugs*

The great news is... I have zero problems playing this game, and playing with others in this game, no matter the content, without using a single Invention beyond the standard ones (okay, fine, maybe a celerity stealth on a few).



Lastly (because this post was way too short and I'm sure I have everyone's distinct attention), I don't view not acquring greater bonuses as "gimping".

There's zero problem with people having different tastes than my own, so no need for any negativity about this.

Yep! You can log into Beta and check the pieces out and go and play with them in game!